Only when Bai Wu truly saw the person before him did he understand where that sense of incongruity ca from.
The man in the real world was very timid, so much so that when those lamb-like innocent eyes showed a hint of malevolence and dominance, Bai Wu couldn’t rember why for a mont.
"Bai Xiaoyu."
"Are you surprised?"
"Yes, after all, your human form has a very faint presence in the real world."
"Let’s change the na, I am indeed his Evil Fallen Body, and he is indeed my human form, but I am not him, only when he completely becos Evil Fallen will the barrier between him and disappear. You can call Oga."
Bai Wu furrowed his brows, what kind of na was this?
Oga said in a teasing manner,
"Don’t you refer to soone as Alpha? Then just call Oga, others may refer to as their leader, but you need not."
"Why is it that the more difficult it is for soone to beco Evil Fallen in this world, the stronger their Evil Fallen Body is?" Bai Wu asked.
Oga explained,
"It’s simple, once in the real world, our human forms beco Evil Fallen, it will lead to us as Evil Fallen Bodies in this world... leaving..."
"Once we leave, aside from you who has so kind of save device... it’s basically impossible to co back," Oga said.
"So the longer one stays, the stronger one becos. Of course, this is just one factor. Another is, the harder it is for soone to turn Evil Fallen, the greater the obsession needed, and naturally, their corresponding Evil Fallen Body is that much more powerful."
Bai Xiaoyu was indeed soone very difficult to turn into Evil Fallen.
Every ti Cain was about to break Bai Xiaoyu with tornt, Bai Xiaoyu would enact a rebound from the depths of his despair.
In his mind, he would conjure up soone who could lead him out of suffering.
But now Bai Wu thought about it, Cain had neither killed Bai Xiaoyu nor given him up...
Indeed, quite suspicious.
Bai Wu said, "Your personality is completely different from the Bai Xiaoyu I know."
"Of course, it’s different. As I said, I am , and he is him. Only at the mont he becos Evil Fallen do he and I truly beco one."
Bai Wu understood that essentially, as long as Bai Xiaoyu doesn’t beco Evil Fallen, then the Evil Fallen Body in this world and the human form in that world... their personalities and behavioral logic remain independent.
"So, my Evil Fallen Body... is also different from my own personality?"
"Your Evil Fallen Body?"
Oga truly gave Bai Xiaoyu’s timid face another kind of temperant, as if encountering sothing very difficult to describe:
"For a while, we even thought... that your Evil Fallen Body, the legend of this world, was about to leave."
Oga’s expression was complex:
"For a ti, we didn’t know whether to cheer or to mourn."
"The cheering is because of what?" Bai Wu was sowhat curious about his own Evil Fallen Body.
"The cheering is because... your Evil Fallen Body, let’s call it Beta."
Beta?
Following the alphabetical order, it’s right after Alpha, Bai Wu just took it as Oga’s casual remark.
"It is a tyrant."
Well, Mr. Bai exclaid in his mind.
"That’s interesting."
Oga shook his head,
"No, not interesting at all. In this world, be it the Seventh Consortiums or Evil Fallen, anyone who provoked him would be relentlessly tortured, wrung out for a pitiful amount of negative emotions, then brutally killed."
"..." Bai Wu had nothing to say.
Was his own Evil Fallen Body so cruel? But wasn’t I, Mr. Bai, beloved by everyone?
Oga looked at Bai Wu:
"Actually, even without my saying, you should know that you are a monster."
"Then say it anyway, how exactly am I a monster?" Bai Wu retorted, unconvinced.
Oga continued:
"A monster without negative emotions, although you’ve managed, through your own learning, to make yourself as much in line with the public’s sense of good as possible."
"But essentially, Bai Wu, you are not a good person. Indeed, through constantly self-suggesting, opposing Bai Yuan’s expectations, and conforming to the public, your logic and the world view you present are comndable in the eyes of most."
"But we all know—if your childhood experiences had been a bit more twisted, you might have beco a monster without human empathy, without a sense of morality."
Bai Wu did not agree with this statent, but Oga also said:
"But there are no ifs, your special experiences have made you a monster without negative emotions, rather than a monster without human emotions, which is good."
"Those people on the plane, and that chanical dog nad Jing in Baichuan City Zoo, as well as the you that my human self has seen... are all beings worthy of respect."
It seems that the huge chanical dog from Baichuan City Zoo, whose obsession dissolved and then vanished, also exists in this world.
Bai Wu said:
"I understand what you an, I’m not a monster, but I could have been one, so my Evil Fallen body is an utter brute?"
Oga laughed:
"It’s not that bad, after all, Beta... is brutally principled."
"He has his own territories, his own resource points; he seldom causes trouble if left alone. But if you inadvertently offend him... then, well..."
As Oga was speaking, he undid his black robe, revealing his toned muscles.
Bai Wu thought the other party was suddenly preparing to do sothing outrageous, then watched as Oga pointed to a scar that couldn’t be erased and said:
"Once I went to ask for help, and brought a significant amount of resources, only to disturb him, and he beat up."
The scar appeared black, extending from Oga’s shoulder blade all the way down to the waist.
It looked like a ravine.
Bai Wu roughly understood.
But could you please announce yourself before you undress next ti? It made feel like I narrowly escaped a catastrophe.
Bai Wu frowned:
"You can’t beat him? I feel like when I turn into the Evil Fallen body... it’s not that strong."
His own Evil Fallen body almost didn’t win against the Lake God. If it was not for the sudden rush of angry emotions, that fight could have indeed gone south.
Since Oga leads the Evil Fallen, surely he can’t be weaker than his own Evil Fallen body.
Shockingly, Oga actually rolled his eyes at Bai Wu.
How discordant does it look for him to roll his eyes with Bai Xiaoyu’s face?
It’s like one second ago soone had the deanor of Xu Sanduo, naively saying: Living well is aningful, and being aningful is living well.
The next second, his eyebrows arch into the attitude of Yu Xiufeng arrogantly stating: Both rank and death are determined.
Bai Wu didn’t voice his thoughts, and Oga maintained that teasing deanor and said:
"That’s because you took a shortcut."
"Huh? A shortcut?"
"Both you and Gu Qingyu are individuals with a high threshold for emotion, but your transformations into Evil Fallen were through the use of objects. Objects are shortcuts."
Bai Wu was taken aback, suddenly realizing sothing.
Normal people beco Evil Fallen due to emotional breakdowns.
But not him or the captain; they beca Evil Fallen because they wore the Spirit Possession watches.
The Spirit Possession watches indeed turned him and the captain into Evil Fallen, yet lacking the true emotional feedback.
"So, even though that wristwatch has stolen Yan’s MVP several tis, it also, to so extent, constrained itself from performing?"
Oga saw Bai Wu’s expression and guessed that Bai Wu must have realized sothing:
"It seems you’ve understood."
Bai Wu had indeed understood, and he let out a light gasp:
"But this is a Schrödinger’s Evil Fallen Body... Without relying on the Spirit Possession wristwatch, I couldn’t beco an Evil Fallen. And it seems like I won’t turn into an Evil Fallen anymore."
Oga shook his head and said:
"If you’re human, you can definitely complete the Evil Fallen Transformation. The reason you won’t beco an Evil Fallen is because you drank the Well Water and received the opportunity to use the power of the Evil Fallen series. But this doesn’t an you have gained the power of your Evil Fallen Body."
"His power is not simple."
That’s interesting, Bai Wu said:
"You’ve beaten around the bush and even brought up the captain, so what exactly happened to the captain?"
The topic returned to the right track.
Oga said:
"His Evil Fallen Body was captured by the people of the Seven Major Consortiums. They likely ca for you, or to be precise, for the weapon you possess."
Bai Wu didn’t speak, and Oga continued to explain what happened:
"Not long ago, the people from the Seven Major Consortiums expended a great deal of manpower and resources, and after suffering heavy casualties, they captured the Evil Fallen Body of Gu Qingyu, well, he also has his own na, we call him Crimson."
"Crimson..."
Bai Wu still rembered the captain’s posture during his Evil Fallen Transformation, the first thought was—the captain is very tall.
The second thought was, he was surrounded by a crimson crystal wall.
Crimson was indeed fitting, like the na of a cha.
Bai Wu asked, "Is his personality very different from the captain’s?"
Oga shook his head, "No... Gu Qingyu and Crimson... their personalities highly overlap."
"That’s right, heroes are always similar; it’s the villains who each have their own evil," Bai Wu accepted this point quickly.
Oga sighed:
"I told you before, this world’s Evil Fallen are divided into the Deceased Faction and the Native Faction, with the Deceased Faction mainly protecting the Native Faction. However, Crimson, as an Evil Fallen of the Native Faction, often protects other Evil Fallen."
"He’s considered one of our heroes."
That’s very captain-like, Bai Wu said:
"We have to rescue him."
"Yes, we do need to rescue him, but you also need to be prepared for sothing."
"What preparation?"
"He might die."
Bai Wu’s index finger trembled slightly, and he asked in a calm voice:
"If... the Evil Fallen Body in this world died, what would happen to a human’s body in the real world?"
"They would permanently turn into an Evil Fallen. And cannot be... saved by the Doomsday Puzzle pieces."
Bai Wu had actually guessed that the real-world captain might be in danger.
Because he had helped the captain avoid a catastrophe, but just as there is logic to ti, there is logic to causality as well.
Those who play with ti will be played by ti, and the sa applies to causality.
Yet, Bai Wu wasn’t worried, because he thought that even if the captain turned into an Evil Fallen, it wouldn’t matter since Baichuan City had already collected enough regional pieces.
As long as they took refuge in the Baichuan City shelter, the captain could be restored to human form by the Doomsday Puzzle pieces.
But a single sentence from Oga caused Bai Wu to panic instantly.
"We should act imdiately," Bai Wu said, pressing on Oga’s shoulders.
Oga wasn’t surprised by this response:
"Even monsters have their own friends, which is nice. But an attack now is impossible; if we attack now, countless Evil Fallen will die, not just one native Evil Fallen like Gu Qingyu being captured, but many others too."
"According to the intelligence we’ve gathered, Crimson isn’t dead yet, just being tortured. But I estimate... Gu Qingyu has already undergone Evil Fallen Transformation. If Crimson dies, Gu Qingyu’s transformation cannot be reversed by the Doomsday Puzzle pieces."
Evil Fallen Transformation, in today’s world, isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
Gu Hailin, Nie Chongshan—these seniors from the Investigation Corps could have been restored, but to protect humanity, they chose to continue living as an Evil Fallen."
Without a doubt, Gu Qingyu also had such resolve. Perhaps in the real world, after being transford into an Evil Fallen, Gu Qingyu would just sigh lightly a few tis.
Then, because of gaining greater power, decide to shoulder an even heavier future.
Heroes are often simple, Bai Wu... saw through people like The First Generation and Wu Jiu all too clearly.
But he didn’t want this; if he had lived in The First Generation’s ti, he would have hoped The First Generation lived well.
And living in the captain’s era, he also hoped the captain wouldn’t have to shoulder too much.
Oga said:
"Perhaps this bit of sentint from a monster towards humans is precisely a tyrant’s principle? Our current combat power hardly stands a chance against the joint forces of the Seventh Consortiums; they’ve set a trap, waiting for us to retrieve your weapon."
Bai Wu asked:
"Even with you and together, are we not a match?"
"We’d be facing mbers of the board of directors of the Seventh Consortiums, and possibly even the Seven Sins themselves. Just the two of us indeed aren’t enough," Oga replied calmly.
Calmness implies confidence, and Bai Wu understood:
"So you specifically ntioned and the captain because, on one hand, you want to save the captain, and on the other hand, you want to... convince that tyrant to help?"
"Exactly. No matter how brutal he is, he wouldn’t kill his own human form, would he? Otherwise, his status would change from a native Evil Fallen to a Deceased Evil Fallen, from a Free Being to a Guardian," Oga said, his face a picture of composure.
Upon hearing this, Bai Wu completely understood.
Everything started because of him.
His entry into the Well World triggered a series of butterfly effects.
First, there was "Zero," wavering over sothing from seven hundred years ago. In the end, inside the Eternal Bank building, Zero t death, enabling himself to reach the third level.
Robbing the Eternal Bank successfully humiliated the Seven Consortiums.
Therefore, the people of the Seven Consortiums quickly decided to retaliate against him in the Deep Well World, that is, the third level.
By using the captain’s Evil Fallen Body, they aid to retrieve the Seven Sins weapon.
anwhile, the Evil Fallen led by Oga saw an opportunity.
If they could convince him, perhaps they could also persuade the Skeletal Tyrant, increasing the chances of joining forces to take down the encampnt of the Seven Consortiums...
In this way, Oga might lose quite a few Evil Fallen, but they could gain a resource-rich stronghold, severely damage the Seventh Consortiums, and also form an alliance with the Skeletal Tyrant, laying a foundation for future cooperation.
Many birds with one stone.
"It seems you’ve been waiting for to show up," Bai Wu sighed.
"Yes, I’m sorry, Crimson will have to suffer for a few more days. Next... please co with to the tyrant’s location," Oga said.
My human self, persuading my Evil Fallen self to save my friend’s Evil Fallen Body in order to rescue my friend’s human self.
The situation might sound a bit complicated, but it’s actually quite simple.
Although Oga was using him, cooperation is about mutual use for a win-win situation.
Bai Wu didn’t care too much about that, and nodded, saying:
"Alright, it so happens that I also want... to have a talk with my Evil Fallen self."
(There will be double monthly tickets on the 29th... After doing the math, the exact day isn’t determined yet, but there will be a big update. Actually, it’s not that there weren’t big updates before, but the focus wasn’t there. However, the plot to rescue Crimson does have a focal point.)
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